Batocera on Beelink Mini MXIII (S905)

BARIO

Hi all,

Disclaimer: I’m a noob with modding android tv box, but I’m ok-experienced with Linux.

I have tried the image “Amlogic S905/S905x (s905)”, Batocera boots with meson-gxbb-nexbox-a95x.dtb, but I can’t get the network to work, neither using the RJ45 nor the WLAN: with the Rj45 plugged and no WiFi configured, the GUI shows the WiFi icon on, but when I go into network settings it shows an 169.xxx.xxx.xxx ip which makes no sense for my network, and there is no presence of the unit in my modem’s network’s map.

I also tried gxbb_p200_1G_1Gbit_RealtekWiFi.dtb file (which works fine in LibreElec) but the box doesn’t boot. I guess Batocera expects a meson build. I tried to google meson_gxbb_p200_* but had no luck.

What am I doing wrong? Should I try to recompile Batocera? If so, what configuration should I build?

Thanks a milion in advance :-)

Atari

If you need a device-specific dtb and Batocera doesn’t already include it, then it needs to be compiled.

And no, you can’t just grab a dtb from another OS and chuck it in, expecting it to work. DTBs are binaries, compiled for the specific OS, they are not sharable.

Feel free to request support for this dtb to the devs on the Discord. Otherwise, if you do fancy compiling it yourself, we have a guide here: https://wiki.batocera.org/compile_batocera.linux You’ll need to look for the dtb in buildroot. If buildroot doesn’t already provide it; don’t expect to be able to manually add it in. Buildroot have probably not already included it for a very good reason if that is the case.

BARIO

UPDATE: I got the wifi to work!

I didn’t do anything apart from:
- unplugging the RJ45 cable (I assume the problem was here)
- copying some roms into the SHARE partition

Now Batocera gets an IP from the router and I can ssh it via IP or using the hostname “batocera”.

So far so good :-)

thanks!